Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says the government has decided to make repatriation the ultimate goal of Armenia’s relations with its diaspora, while including it in a draft rather than an adopted constitution.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Armenia’s government is incorporating repatriation into the draft of a new constitution, Hetq said in its account of the Third Global Armenian Summit. The proposal concerns the draft; it is not an adopted constitutional provision.
Pashinyan told diaspora affairs commissioners that the government had decided to define repatriation as the ultimate goal of Armenia’s relations with Armenians living abroad, while recognizing that those ties have many immediate dimensions. Repatriation here means moving to Armenia from the diaspora.
Hetq described the objective as encouraging diaspora Armenians to obtain citizenship and make Armenia the center of their personal, academic and economic lives.
The first Global Armenian Summit took place in 2022, after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. At this year’s gathering, Pashinyan said Armenia was redefining its relations with the diaspora. He said diaspora affairs commissioners represent Armenia in those relationships and convey communities’ messages back to the country.
The summit is scheduled to conclude on 8 November, after discussions on subjects including security, education and investment.
The prime minister says the proposed text will make repatriation the ultimate objective of Armenia’s relations with its diaspora and will undergo further revision.
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